Question

explain reign of terror

Answer 1

reign of terror equals to the period of 1793 to 1794 when France became a republic country maximilien robespierre and followed policy of Severe control and punishments all those who and whom he saw a synonyms of the republic EX nobels and clergy members of the other political parties even members of his own party who did not agree with his methods were arrested imprisoned and tried by Revolutionary Tribunal atmosphere of restlessness in security and anxiety prevailed resistance could be declared as treason and punished by guillotine in this 14 month period of 17000 people including innocents was executed Terror was not an instrument of class war it was directed not only against the privileged classes of the rich middle class but even more against the innocents robbespierre was a virtual dictator of France you follow his policy so eminently that his supporters in the end left him he was finally convicted and guillotined